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An Egyptian mission has reported the tomb of an Old Kingdom official named Weni at Saqqara. It held bronze tools believed to be medical, though his inscriptions give him no medical title.
27 Oct 2026A new study says 'Ubeidiya in Israel's Jordan Valley is at least 1.9 million years old, against the 1.2 to 1.6 million years long accepted. It rests on three dating methods and one stubborn anomaly.
27 Oct 2026A Roman coffin, a Saxon cross and a skeleton radiocarbon-dated to 987–1052. Professor Warwick Rodwell's new paper narrows the occupant of Westminster Abbey's sarcophagus to two abbots.
27 Oct 2026A prince's tomb at Saqqara held statues of King Djoser and his family.
27 Oct 2026Egypt's tourism minister toured the Czech mission's dig at Saqqara on 26 October. Officials described a newly revealed offering chapel and the burial chamber of the Old Kingdom official Ptahshepses.
27 Oct 2026Excavators at Shég' Xdaltth'í', near Fairbanks, report a camp from about 13,800 years ago. It has a possible lean-to, an earth oven, bone needles and tools that echo sites in Siberia.
27 Oct 2026Burgas municipality says the Latin inscription on the base of a Trajan statue, found this year at Aquae Calidae, has been read: it dates to AD 100 and names the council of Deultum.
27 Oct 2026Egypt's antiquities authorities report a Saqqara tomb with two small wooden figures in a worshipping pose, bronze tools that may be medical, and a false door naming a priestess of Hathor.
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